Some highly recommended reading, much of it from normally non-political bloggers:
- I’m not sure which one’s the money graf (there are so many to choose from!) in this profoundly scary article, but this comes close:
The [senior White House] aide said that guys like me were ”in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who ”believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ”That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued.
The bit about the Swedish Army is just as frightening.
- Holy shit. How widespread is the voter fraud in this country?
- maybe you are Christian
maybe you are religious
maybe you are conservative
maybe you’re even a born-again Christian conservative
but do you really think the president of the United States should be imposing his religious beliefs on the whole country?
do you really?
i mean we might as well go back to the Spanish Inquisition if thats the case
- Before watching the debates, I thought that Bush was only a dim-witted puppet being pulled along by big corporations and the unholy triumvirate otherwise known as the “True” Axis of Evil - Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz. After watching the debates, I now believe that Cheney is to Bush as the Emperor is to Darth Vader.
- now after watching it [Fahrenheit 9/11]… and being emotionally drained from it, i might add… i don’t think it beat up on him at all… or at least, not enough.
- In his debate with Edwards, Cheney explained that the 9-11 attacks cost America over one million jobs. Of course, this just isn’t true. … By crediting Osama’s attacks for America’s unemployment crisis, Cheney is, in effect, giving comfort to the enemy.
Meanwhile, in his second debate with Kerry, Bush explained that we had to invade Iraq and that, indeed, our entire foreign policy had to be changed because of Osama’s attacks. So - according to this statement - Osama not only succeeded in changing our relationship to Al Qaeda, he succeeded in fundamentally altering US policy. Bush, too, is giving comfort to the enemy.
- If you’re not voting for Kerry, I don’t want to know you.